Ok, so Tuesday, I didn’t know we had the day off, and I went in to work. The owner showed up around 3pm, was surprised to see me there, and told me to turn off the A/C when I left. Around 8pm, my manager called and demanded that I allow him to pick me up and drive me home; I declined and walked so that he wouldn’t be inconvenienced.
Well, work is busy, so I went in again today. After the typhoon died down, of course.
Are my managers going to think that I’m dutiful and hardworking, or totally psychotic? Your opinion would be appreciated.
Thank you, Alien. Considering what I think of you, I’m honored.
I know the dangers, but the winds weren’t bad at all when I went in. Leaving last night was another matter, but it still wasn’t especially bad – I’ve kayaked in worse – and my half-mile walk home is sheltered on both sides. The only bad spots (3) were where alleyways intersected the road, creating wind channels from the sides. If I’d felt threatened, I would have taken any one of the half-dozen taxis that were waiting across the street from the office.
Okami, I’m still in my training period. I don’t get paid anything extra until after October 1.
I think you should change the poll question so it’s more clear what you’re asking. Since you wanted to know what your boss thinks, I put dutiful (/but kissing j/k). But if you asked me, I’d still choose dituful, but I’m sure others would pick different from their own perspective. The poll question doesn’t differentiate and lazy people will probably just vote crazy (thus throwing the numbers off, not that it really matters).
Brown noser was the first though that came to my mind but since that wasn’t an option I picked crazy.
My question is would you do it again? :loco: There is no way in hell I would risk life and limb to come to work. My life and health is much more important than any job.
I voted “dutiful” but only because there was no “indifferent” option. To me, bosses often seem indifferent to such behavior, and I’m not just talking about Taiwanese bosses.
It’s not that I’m certain your boss was indifferent, it’s just that based on some past experiences, I try to automatically, or superstitiously, adopt that belief on those (hopefully rare) occasions when, for whatever reason, I find my self in the “above and beyond the call” territory at work. It works better for me emotionally, so I don’t go, “Why, that unappreciative so-and-so!” when he or she turns out to be an unappreciative so-and-so. (Well, in fact I still go, “Why, that unappreciative . . . ,” I just don’t think it as passionately.)
If an employee works overtime whenever necessary, it’s dutiful; if he does so when it’s not necessary, especially in a typhoon holiday that puts the employer exposed to risks of paying for the damages for the employee’s possible injury between home and office due to the typhoon, then that’s an ass kisser and trouble maker.
Do you really think an employer would be held responsible for someone’s injury coming to work or leaving (especially in Taiwan)?? I had an accident on the way to work on time about 20 years ago, should I go back and sue - obviously if I was not required to go to work then I wouldn’t have been out on the street at that time of morning in all that traffic.
Those of us in the media have no choice. The news doesn’t stop just because the weather is bad.
If you don’t come to work because it is “too windy” or “too rainy” then you are just a weenie.
According to Taiwan’s Labor Standards Law, an employer shall pay compensation to a worker who is injured, sick, incapacitated or deceased owing to an occupational accident. Employees’ injury or accidents during the way from home to office (and vice versa) is considered an occupational accident. So if Maposquid’s employer asks him to go to work on a Typhoon holiday, of course the company has to pay him the compensation if he’s injured due to the typhoon. But if he goes to work voluntarily on a typhoon holiday, then the employer is probably not liable. I was kidding with Maposquid.
Vannyel,
Well, 20 years is a long time, probably long enough to make your rights to sue expire
[quote=“B.B.”]According to Taiwan’s Labor Standards Law, an employer shall pay compensation to a worker who is injured, sick, incapacitated or deceased owing to an occupational accident. Employees’ injury or accidents during the way from home to office (and vice versa) is considered an occupational accident. So if Maposquid’s employer asks him to go to work on a Typhoon holiday, of course the company has to pay him the compensation if he’s injured due to the typhoon. But if he goes to work voluntarily on a typhoon holiday, then the employer is probably not liable. I was kidding with Maposquid.
Vannyel,
Well, 20 years is a long time, probably long enough to make your rights to sue expire
As I said in the first two sentences of my previous post, you are entitled to the compensation if you’re injured on the way home from the office and the other way around on any regular work day. But that only applies to the direct way between home and the office. That is, if you leave the office and go to SOGO, but then you have an accident on the way home from SOGO, which is not the necessary route between home and the office, then you’re not entitle to the compensation for occupational injury.
But I really don’t know if you can get any compensation if you’re liable for the accident, or how many Taiwanese will file for the compensation if the employer doesn’t automatically give him the compensation. You know, the gap between the law and the enforcement…But you absolutely have the rights to it if you ask.
[quote=“B.B.”]As I said in the first two sentences of my previous post, you are entitled to the compensation if you’re injured on the way home from the office and the other way around on any regular work day. But that only applies to the direct way between home and the office. That is, if you leave the office and go to SOGO, but then you have an accident on the way home from SOGO, which is not the necessary route between home and the office, then you’re not entitle to the compensation for occupational injury.
But I really don’t know if you can get any compensation if you’re liable for the accident, or how many Taiwanese will file for the compensation if the employer doesn’t automatically give him the compensation. You know, the gap between the law and the enforcement…But you absolutely have the rights to it if you ask.[/quote]
Thanks for clarifying that.
[quote=“B.B.”]As I said in the first two sentences of my previous post, you are entitled to the compensation if you’re injured on the way home from the office and the other way around on any regular work day. But that only applies to the direct way between home and the office. That is, if you leave the office and go to SOGO, but then you have an accident on the way home from SOGO, which is not the necessary route between home and the office, then you’re not entitle to the compensation for occupational injury.
But I really don’t know if you can get any compensation if you’re liable for the accident, or how many Taiwanese will file for the compensation if the employer doesn’t automatically give him the compensation. You know, the gap between the law and the enforcement…But you absolutely have the rights to it if you ask.[/quote]
Actually, my company’s HR manager brought this up regarding him wanting me to hurry up and get my ARC. He said if I were injured, the company would be liable.
I just got my paycheck. I got paid double-time for both typhoon days, even though I was only at the office for one of them (I did the other shift at home via email).
j/k). But if you asked me, I’d still choose dituful, but I’m sure others would pick different from their own perspective. The poll question doesn’t differentiate and lazy people will probably just vote crazy (thus throwing the numbers off, not that it really matters).